The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

With every planet, star and piece of cosmic dirt they eat, black holes grow larger and larger. Supermassive black holes are ...

Scientists from University of Southampton say they may have been overestimating size of the celestial giants after a new ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

A high-energy neutrino may have come from a black hole explosion, hinting at Hawking radiation and dark matter clues.

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.